Review
“Bradby’s best book yet… enjoyable and atmosheric.”
–Sunday TelegraphFrom the Paperback edition.
Product Description
The new thriller from the acclaimed author of Shadow Dancer, The Sleep of the Dead, The Master of Rain and The White Russian.
Cairo, June 1942: A city blistering under the lash of a relentless summer, and panicked by the implacable advance of Hitler’s most talented general, Erwin Rommel. It is the worst possible time and place for the body of a senior British officer to be found in a rubbish bin, bathed in blood.
His murder has been made to look like a political assassination by local extremists opposed to British rule, but former New York cop, Joe Quinn, isn’t buying that. He senses more fundamental human emotions at play. For Quinn, it’s like old times, a reminder of his past. Thrown out of the New York police as a liability after the death of his son, he probably shouldn’t be a cop any longer, but maybe he’s just what this case needs. The investigation leads him through the underbelly of a violent and seedy city to the heart of the Cairo high command, and the possibility that a highly placed spy is feeding sensitive secrets to Rommel, waiting out in the desert.
Only one person has seen the killer – an American named Amy White. The trouble is, Joe Quinn is already falling for her and if he doesn’t stop the spy soon, then not just Amy, but everything else he holds dear is certain to be brutally eliminated.
